Patrick Collison

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?" · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

There are many more businesses getting started now than there were a year ago, as little as a year ago.

Way, way more than were getting started five years ago.

And actually, the relative change between last year and this year is pretty much the largest relative change we've seen in any given year.

So for example, from 2019 to 2020, we saw a big jump, understandable, during COVID.

So February to April of 2020 or whatever.

I think the growth rate inflected to maybe 50% or thereabouts year over year in terms of new businesses getting started.

As I speak, the number of new businesses starting on Stripe is up around, it's a bit under, but around 2x year over year, which again is the largest relative jump we've seen.

And you might think, okay, fine, there's way more vibe-coded, kind of lightweight, slop, whatever.

Fine, there's more things, but are they actually succeeding?

But actually, the median business is doing better this year than a year ago.

And so...

And then if we kind of stratify it and look at the probability that any given business will reach some revenue threshold, $1 million, $5 million, $10 million, whatever, those all seem to be getting better.

Business are, the time to revenue

for new companies incorporated with Atlas is declining.

And so by all the kind of objective metrics we can look at, it seems to be a better time than ever to start a business.

Now again, things can change.

I don't know what the world's gonna look like in five years, but speaking today on July 26th or whatever it is of 26, I think it is,

The Stripe data would suggest there's never been a better time.

Back in, again, the old days when Arjun and I were first starting out, getting to a million dollars of revenue, like run rate revenue, was a big deal.

People would know about that company.

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